You Can’t Please All the People All the Time
Article 3, Section E, in the Project Management Institute Code of Ethics states that as project management professionals, we will “be honest and realistic in reporting project quality, cost, and time.” In short, we will tell the truth. Doing so is bound to upset someone at some point. It is instructive for the project manager to understand this concept when trying to balance the desires of the project team, the client, and her employer. If project managers try to be all things to all people, they will usually end up being nothing to anyone.
The project manager must continue to report the status of the project as accurately as possible. It would be wrong and unethical to couch any status reports based ...
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